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		j2d2 on April 24, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Review a simple URL un-shortening service. What made you decide to solve this problem? Did you encounter issues that this solved?

zavulon on April 24, 2009 [–]

Personally, I see value in it.

If I get a shortened URL link from someone, and I'm at work, I would like to go to that site and see what that TinyURL really is before following the link

wlievens on April 24, 2009 | [–]

It would work great with a firefox/whatever plugin that would show you this link as a tooltip, avoiding the copypaste grind

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